Mada Masr Launches New Translation Feature: ‘In Other Words’
“We hope to create more space for diverse voices from the region to be heard elsewhere, not for what they “represent,” but for the unique, singular vision each of them provides.”
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Prize for ‘City of Beginnings,’ Mention for ‘Teaching Modern Arabic Literature in Translation’
Earlier this month, Robyn Creswell received the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize for best first book for his “City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut.”
ArabLit Quarterly’s Winter/Spring 2019 Issue Wins ‘Broken Pencil’ Award
Founded in 2017, the BP Zine Award celebrates excellence in the world of independent magazines, with the goal of raising “awareness of the possibilities of independent zine publishing.”
Shortlist for 2019 ArabLit Story Prize
After a good deal of debate, the judges of the 2019 ArabLit Story Prize settled on a four-story shortlist, with works by Mahmoud Hosny, Najwa Bin Shatwan, Mohamed Al-Ashry, and Samar Nour.
New Arabic Releases: 3 Recommendations from the RAYA Agency
Yasmina Jraissati at the RAYA Agency is recommending three very different titles for the fall. Two are new releases: a debut novel by Palestinian author Asma al-Atawna and a historical novel […]
Friday Finds: 12 Poems by Nabilah al-Zubair
I will say that I am your lover (just saying)
You will say to me: my love (just a word)
An Excerpt of Sherif Abdel Samad’s ‘Chekhov and the Lady with the Chihuahua’
“Chekhov eventually travels with the sisters to Cairo, where demonstrations against the Khedive are taking place, and where he finds himself embroiled in mayhem.”
2019 IWP Residents Include Soukaina Habiballah, Amira-Géhanne Khalfallah
This year, two IWP residents come from neighboring Maghrebi nations.
Award-winning Film ‘You Will Die at Twenty,’ Based on Hammour Ziada Story
“A while ago, Sudanese film director Amjad Abu Alala, who is a friend of mine, approached me and told me that he wanted to adapt a story I wrote years ago into a film. It was about a Sudanese boy, born in a simple Sudanese village, and a prophecy that foresees his death when he turns 20.”